This tip is actually for Vim 6.1. To turn on syntax coloring in Mac OS X enter the following commands, or place them in your vimrc:

:set term=builtin_beos-ansi
:syntax on

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Note that this is only an issue for Vim in a Terminal window, not for the GUI version, and that it will only work if support for beos-ansi is compiled in. For pre-compiled versions for Mac OS X, see http://vim.sourceforge.net/download.php#mac